 One of the epiphanies that I had recently was just how little effort I actually put towards planning my days and this is something that I Believe I struggled with since a very young age. I never had a real accountability. Nobody actually taught me or raised me to Be accountable to my plans, so I could set plans for tomorrow and would almost certainly Know that I won't Actually do what I planned to do. I was always very based on immediate satisfaction and basically strategized around me creating situations where I would make Whatever it is that I want to achieve immediately satisfying So I would either do it by removing all other distractions. For example, I Would not I would remove the TV. I would disconnect the internet quit Facebook Basically anything that might distract me. I would remove it and then what would Guarantee that I would do what I said I would do would be simply boredom or or lack of choice Another way I did it was by setting up very punishing Things that would happen If I did not live up to that goal So that is how also you create an immediate reward but what I never did was Try to develop willpower in the sense that I would Decide to do something and then regardless of how I felt Actually do it and this took me years to develop Until I guess like a year ago It is something that I did not have So I would have to create again very risky situations to motivate me because nothing else would work so a couple of days ago No, more like a couple of weeks ago. I began the habit of Scheduling my days so before bed. I would sit down and plan out the next day and hopefully even the week ahead a Couple of things that really contributed to this was first of all My having Me having a much higher degree of willpower than I did in the past Secondly my life experience where I became a lot more grounded After things that I went through that taught me That it is very important to plan out and it is very important to always be wise not just foolish and and Take risks, but also wise sometimes even more so because not just about short-term success. It's about Who in the long run won so if you are Taking massive risks and life is you know just kind of Surfing life on the edge and then you end up crashing in your 30s or 40s You didn't really succeed because success is Long-term thing that you can sustain and The third thing that changed so the third thing that changed My view towards planning was actually my girlfriend. So I've been in a committed relationship for over eight months now and I've spent about three four years in relationships Since I was young The rest was just me, you know living the single life, but this is the first relationship where I actually found a mutual It's truly long-term relationship where I could see myself developing with this girl and Creating a future together so that really helped me become more grounded and I Find this habit quite amazing. So before Bed or you know just at around 10 a.m. At night 10 p.m. Sorry I Sit down and start Open opening like a series of question that I always ask myself Questions like How was my day? So did I have a good day today or not? Let me just open it Did I do all my habits today? What three things that happen today am I grateful for? How can I be better tomorrow than I was today? What are the three main values that I want to express in my behavior tomorrow? Where did I excel today? Where did I fail today? What might what are the main things I want to accomplish tomorrow? How am I going to accomplish them? What's the plan? What could get in the way of me accomplishing these plans? How do I create a commitment that would make sure that I actually do these things and so on and so forth and Then I proceed to schedule the rest of the day or even the rest of the week and What's beautiful about it is that in the past? I would set up this ideal schedule where I would set up a schedule Around how I wish I was so you know the day it would look very good very promising and then the day would start and Because I did not put any accountability into actually making sure that the schedule Fits my personality and and based on my history I would actually do it and what actually you know makes me not want to do things and Make sure to put that out of the way I would just schedule stuff that is ideal you know like this after this after this after this and obviously one thing wouldn't work and then everything else would start crashing like dominoes and I would just get demotivated and not want to create a schedule again and The way I do it differently today is that I actually Put a ton of effort into making sure that I have the proper motivations to do everything that I want to do So when I create something that I want to do I make sure that I Project myself into that future and ask myself how will I? Feel at that moment based on my experience. So at this hour based on the events that just happened What mood would I be in? So based on my history 60% of the time after I Wake up I want to have at least 30 minutes of just not doing anything just you know listening to some podcast eating, you know making a meal Resting watching just YouTube videos. So I want to rest and just you know, just put myself in a good mood and I Found that if I schedule something right after I wake up. I would almost certainly not do it Because I would like to relax a bit first. So this is an adjustment. So I set up a 30-minute Proxy first that will allow me to rest and then I said the goal at the the event and then I do it This is just one example of many and How you can actually successfully? schedule your day again by projecting yourself into that future and really looking critically at Would you actually do it? So, you know, you could do it, but would you do it and Come out of the you want to come out of the Mindset that you're probably not going to do it. So instead of thinking. Yeah, sure. I'll do it. Just Come out very suspicious and critical and it's better to you know, kind of err on the side of I'm not going to do it. So I'm going to make adjustments to make it easier. For example, I'm going to give myself Space before that to rest. I'm gonna make sure that, you know, it's not very compact I'm gonna make sure that the event is easier than I thought rather than saying I'm pretty sure I'm gonna do it. So I'm just gonna take the chance because if you don't have a good history of accomplishing Your plans it's very likely that you're not gonna accomplish your events now so You want to slowly build up that trust That you will actually do what you said you'll do and again you do that by starting light accepting your limitations and Making sure not to strain yourself too much and again the real the real benefit of this is that You truly plan out your life So whatever you choose to do tomorrow when you schedule your day You're literally choosing How will your life pan out? You know, you may not have complete control over what happens but what you do is equally if not more important than what happens and By refraining from scheduling your day and avoiding it You're basically saying I'm bound to the whims of my emotions and the events of the day so a person that does not schedule his day and does not have clear deadlines for things is Gonna become mushy basically gonna go soft Because unless you have something chasing your ass That compels you to take action like a deadline with real consequences if you don't accomplish it or A framework that makes sure you actually Commit yourself to doing certain things You're going to gravitate towards the easiest thing at that moment, which might be wasting time on YouTube Watching TV or even if you do talk about okay, I'm gonna sit down and you know study read books You know, whatever it is You're not gonna be as efficient as you were if you did set it up ahead of time Because one of the questions that you ask is what could distract me and You can actually create ahead of time Guarantees that you're not gonna have distractions, which again is really really cool the idea that you can project yourself into the future Figure out all the possible options, you know, obviously you don't have access to all of them But the most likely things Again, what would make me not want to do it What would make me excel at it? What would distract me? Infinite matter of questions that allow you to focus and you can you should ask as many as you are comfortable with and This is how you create your life. So again, scheduling is the bomb It's really awesome in case you're not doing it yet, which most I think most action people don't I highly recommend you start adopting this habit and let me know if you need help with it. Anyway Just kind of a plug look in at my description for this video you'll see lots of stuff that I offer some for free some are paid and I Hope you subscribe and enjoy the rest of the content. I'll see you very soon. Thanks for watching